schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a devious trick; a bit of cheating; "how did you ever fall for a shtik like that?"

pisha paysha - (Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoing to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner

meshugaas, mishegaas, mishegoss - (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity

schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a prank or piece of clowning; "his shtik made us laugh"

schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a contrived and often used bit of business that a performer uses to steal attention; "play it straight with no shtik"

tsuris - (Yiddish) aggravating trouble; "the frustrating tsuris he subjected himself to"

chachka, tchotchke - (Yiddish) an inexpensive showy trinket

schmaltz, schmalz, shmaltz, mushiness - (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music

chutzpa, chutzpah, hutzpah - (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity

schmegegge, shmegegge - (Yiddish) baloney; hot air; nonsense

German language, High German, German - the standard German language; developed historically from West Germanic

shmooze - (Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk

kvetch - (Yiddish) a nagging complaint

megillah - (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account; "he insisted on giving us the whole megillah"

tsoris - (Yiddish) trouble and suffering

nosh - (Yiddish) a snack or light meal

bagel, beigel - (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust

knish - (Yiddish) baked or fried turnover filled with potato or meat or cheese; often eaten as a snack

mishpachah, mishpocha - (Yiddish) the entire family network of relatives by blood or marriage (and sometimes close friends); "she invited the whole mishpocha"

schmear, schmeer, shmear - (Yiddish) a batch of things that go together; "he bought the whole schmeer"

chachka, tchotchke - (Yiddish) a mistress

chutzpanik - (Yiddish) a person characterized by chutzpa

ganef, ganof, gonif, goniff - (Yiddish) a thief or dishonest person or scoundrel (often used as a general term of abuse)

kibitzer - (Yiddish) a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others

klutz - (Yiddish) a clumsy dolt

knocker - (Yiddish) a big shot who knows it and acts that way; a boastful immoderate person

kvetch - (Yiddish) a constant complainer

mensch, mensh - a decent responsible person with admirable characteristics

meshuggeneh, meshuggener - (Yiddish) a crazy fool

nebbech, nebbish - (Yiddish) a timid unfortunate simpleton

nudnick, nudnik - (Yiddish) someone who is a boring pest

putz - (Yiddish) a fool; an idiot

schlemiel, shlemiel - (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler

schlimazel, shlimazel - (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything

schmo, schmuck, shmo, shmuck - (Yiddish) a jerk

schnook, shnook - (Yiddish) a gullible simpleton more to be pitied than despisedi; "don't be such an apologetic shnook"

yenta - (Yiddish) a woman gossip unable to keep a secret; a woman who spreads rumors and scandal

yenta - (Yiddish) a vulgar shrew; a shallow coarse termagant

schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik - (Yiddish) a little; a piece; "give him a shtik cake"; "he's a shtik crazy"; "he played a shtik Beethoven"

schemozzle, shemozzle - (Yiddish) a confused situation or affair; a mess